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  • | President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California walk down the House steps Friday March 17 2023 on Capitol Hill in Washington AP PhotoMariam Zuhaib | MR Online

    Manufactured crisis over U.S. debt ceiling sets stage for bipartisan assault on Social Security and Medicare

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on May 25, 2023 by Barry Grey (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted May 27, 2023)

    All of the social gains made by the working class in the course of more than a century of struggle must be wiped out to pay for the drive by the American ruling class to remove, by force of arms, Russia and China as obstacles to US hegemony, even if it means triggering a nuclear war.

  • | An Air Force F 16 Fighting Falcon fires an AIM 9M Sidewinder missile during training at Tyndall Air Force Base Florida March 10 2021 Photo Department of DefenseAir Force 1st Lt Savanah Bray | MR Online

    U.S. announces plans to send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on May 19, 2023 by Andre Damon (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted May 23, 2023)

    On Friday, the White House announced the most reckless and dangerous escalation of its involvement in the war with Russia to date, that it has decided to train Ukrainian pilots to fly U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets and send the nuclear-capable planes to the battlefield.

  • | Police officers ask a man wearing a shirt showing hammer and sickle to close his jacket outside the tomb of the Soviet War memorial at the park in Treptow during the 78th anniversary of Victory Day and the end of WWII in Europe in Berlin Germany Tuesday May 9 2023 AP PhotoMarkus Schreiber | MR Online

    May 8 and the rehabilitation of Nazism in Germany

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on May 12, 2023 by Peter Schwarz (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted May 13, 2023)

    On 8 and 9 May, Berlin traditionally hosts numerous commemorative events to mark the end of the Second World War in Europe.

  • | The J Marvin Jones Federal Building and Mary Lou Robinson United States Courthouse in Amarillo Texas This is the courthouse where US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk recently imposed a ban on the abortion drug mifepristone AP PhotoJustin Rex | MR Online

    U.S. court’s abortion pill ruling: Another milestone in the assault on democratic rights

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on April 10, 2023 by Patrick Martin (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Apr 13, 2023)

    The ruling issued Friday by federal District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, overturning approval of the abortion pill mifepristone by the Food and Drug Administration, is the most flagrant attack on the democratic right to abortion since the Supreme Court’s decision last summer to overturn Roe v. Wade.

  • | Former President Donald Trump departs Trump Tower Wednesday Aug 10 2022 in New York on his way to the New York attorney generals office for a deposition in a civil investigation AP PhotoJulia Nikhinson | MR Online

    The indictment of Donald Trump: A politically bankrupt diversion

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on March 31, 2023 by Joseph Kishore (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Apr 04, 2023)

    Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is reportedly planning on leveraging this charge, which is a misdemeanor that has exceeded the statute of limitations, into a felony by arguing that the business records were falsified to cover up an illegal donation to Trump’s campaign, namely the money from Cohen to pay off Daniels.

  • | BP workers in the background remove insulation from an oil transit pipeline at the Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaskas North Slope AP PhotoAl Grillo | MR Online

    Biden approves huge oil extraction project in Alaska

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on March 15, 2023 by Patrick Martin (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Mar 20, 2023)

    In an action that is a flat reversal of his election campaign pledge of “no more drilling on federal lands,” President Joe Biden decided Monday to approve an $8 billion oil drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope, to be operated by ConocoPhillips.

  • | US Marines with Delta Company 1st Recruit Training Battalion conduct a motivational run at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego Feb 23 2023 US Marine Corps photo by Cpl Julian Elliott Drouin | MR Online

    U.S. sends troops to Taiwan after general threatens war with China by 2025

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on February 24, 2023 by Andre Damon (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Feb 25, 2023)

    The United States will quadruple the number of US forces stationed on Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, in an effort to provoke a war with Beijing along the lines of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

  • | Airmen with the 3rd Munitions Squadron assemble a rack of inert small diameter bombs during readiness training at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson Alaska Feb 9 2018 The small diameter bomb is a precise and accurate weapon that allows the the F 22 Raptor to deliver decisive air power US Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña | MR Online

    U.S. sends long-range missiles to Ukraine

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on February 4, 2023 by Andre Damon (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Feb 06, 2023)

    The White House announced Friday that it would send long-range missiles capable of striking nearly 100 miles into Russian territory to Ukraine, in one of the most significant escalations of U.S. involvement in the war with Russia to date.

  • | Residents of Meridian California have been forced to abandon their homes due to the high flood waters that have entered the small town This mobile home and many others like it have fallen victum to the rising waters of the Sacramento River | MR Online

    The California floods and the climate crisis

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on January 12, 2023 by Bryan Dyne (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Jan 14, 2023)

    The death toll from the ongoing storms and flooding across California and parts of Arizona, Nevada and Oregon rose to at least 18 on Wednesday.

  • | Postal workers on strike at the Bradford North depot October 1 2022 Photo WSWS | MR Online

    UK government prepares “emergency powers” to smash strikes

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on December 4, 2022 by Robert Stevens (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Dec 06, 2022)

    The Conservative government is preparing to deploy the armed forces to smash upcoming strikes this month by hundreds of thousands of workers, including a 48-hour nurses walkout.

  • | Residents wearing face masks line up to get their routine COVID 19 throat swabs at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing Thursday Sept 22 2022 AP PhotoAndy Wong | MR Online

    China pushes lifting of Zero-COVID after anti-lockdown protests

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on November 30, 2022 by Peter Symonds (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Dec 01, 2022)

    In the aftermath of last weekend’s protests in several Chinese cities, the country’s National Health Commission (NHC) held a press conference Tuesday calling for speeding up the implementation of the 20 measures announced on November 11 which initiated the lifting of the country’s Zero-COVID policy that has suppressed numerous outbreaks over the past three years.

  • | President Joe Biden speaks as Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah el Sisi laughs during a meeting at the COP27 UN Climate Summit Friday Nov 11 2022 at Sharm el Sheikh Egypt AP PhotoAlex Brandon | MR Online

    Imperialist powers abandon climate pledges at COP 27 summit

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on November 12, 2022 by Peter Schwarz (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Nov 15, 2022)

    According to a new study by Oxfam, 125 billionaires and their investments are responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than countries such as France, Egypt or Argentina. One of these billionaires emits 393 million tonnes of CO2 a year, a million times more than any member of the lower 90 percent of society.

  • | British musician Roger Waters at a rally against the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at Parliament Square in London Saturday February 22 2020 AP PhotoAlberto Pezzali | MR Online

    Oppose the Berlin state’s witch-hunting campaign against Roger Waters over claims of “anti-Semitism!”

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on November 8, 2022 by Ela Maartens and Peter Schwarz (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Nov 09, 2022)

    The witch-hunting and defamation campaign against British rock musician Roger Waters has also reached Berlin. Last week, Samuel Salzborn, the anti-Semitism commissioner of the Social Democratic-Left Party-Green Senate (state executive), called for the cancellation of a planned concert by the co-founder of the band Pink Floyd in the capital.

  • | America Against the World Everyone Is a Frenemy Putin is a Killer Russia Must Pay the Price | MR Online

    Biden warns: Prepare for nuclear Armageddon

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on October 7, 2022 by David North (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Oct 11, 2022)

    The New York Times reports that President Biden told a group of billionaires at a fundraising event Thursday night: “We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.”

  • | A worker rides a rail car at a BNSF rail crossing in Saginaw Texas Wednesday Sept 14 2022 AP PhotoLM Otero | MR Online

    While rail unions meet with Biden to avert strike, 500 railroaders attend meeting to organize rank-and-file opposition

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on September 16, 2022 by Tom Hall (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Sep 17, 2022)

    With the specter of a national rail strike in the United States looming, two meetings took place on Wednesday night.

  • | Working Class Day of Action call for better living and working conditions Elitsha | MR Online

    Pledging “pain,” Federal Reserve declares war on the working class

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on August 27, 2022 by Marcus Day (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Aug 31, 2022)

    In his speech Friday at the Federal Reserve’s annual summit in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell made one thing clear: America’s financial oligarchy is determined to make the working class bear the cost of the deepening economic crisis.

  • | Roger Waters in the World Beyond War webinar | MR Online

    Roger Waters refutes U.S. war propaganda in CNN interview and World Beyond War webinar

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on August 10, 2022 by Kevin Reed (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Aug 13, 2022)

    On Saturday and Monday, English-born musician-composer and activist Roger Waters denounced the role of the US government in the war between Russia and Ukraine and discussed other contemporary political issues in two public appearances.

  • | Seymour Fogel The Wealth of the Nation commissioned for the Social Security Board Building Washingon DC in 1938 | MR Online

    U.S. Senate targets Social Security and Medicare

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on August 8, 2022 by Andre Damon (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Aug 10, 2022)

    Last week, Republican Senator Ron Johnson called for ending Social Security and Medicare as entitlement programs, instead transferring them into the discretionary budget where they would be gutted.

  • | 00013 borse | MR Online

    The class dynamics of the Fed’s recession program

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on July 39, 2022 by Nick Beams (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Aug 02, 2022)

    On Thursday, the Commerce Department reported that the U.S. economy shrank for the second quarter in a row, bringing it into a “technical recession.”

  • | wikileaks | MR Online

    An interview with John Pilger: “Assange is the courageous embodiment of a struggle against the most oppressive forces in our world”

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) on July 24, 2022 by Oscar Grenfell (more by World Socialist Web Site (WSWS))  | (Posted Jul 30, 2022)

    Last month, British Home Secretary Priti Patel approved Assange’s extradition to the U.S., where he faces 175 years imprisonment under the Espionage Act for publishing true information exposing American war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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